Work And Food

Αὐτὸς μὲν ἐφύβριστον ἡγῇ πᾶσαν χειρόκμητον ἐργασίαν, βιωφελῆ τε ὑπάρχουσαν καὶ πρὸς τὸ ζῇν χρησιμεύουσαν. Ὁ Μιτυλήναῖος δὲ Πιττακὸς, καίτοι βασιλεύς ὠν, τὸν μύλωνα ηὐτούργει, καὶ ἐνεργῶς γυμναζόμενος, καὶ τὴν τροφὴν ἐργαζόμενος. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΥΟ' Θεοδορῳ Σκολαστικῳ Source: Migne PG 78.439b-c

You despise every work which is done with the hands, even when it is most useful and profitable for life. But Pittacus of Mytilene, though he was a king, set to work at a mill, stripping himself down for it, and produced food. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 470 to Theodore the Scholar